HUMANS!
This is bananas. I’m actually a writer, you know. I’ve even been accused of getting too wordy at times, but if you put me on the spot to talk about myself, I just clam up. My brain turns into a blank document with a blinking cursor and I suddenly forget how the keyboard works. I have no problem talking up a storm any other time. 🤣 So… A little bit about me…
Halloween is my jam. I know a lot of people say that, and yes, I’m another one. However, I don’t do pumpkin spice anything. I think it smells delicious and that smell is a lie. 🎃 I have an obnoxiously large collection of Halloween home decor. Most of the indoor decor stays up year round. Everything would stay decorated OUTSIDE too but I got outvoted. ‘Tis crap if you ask me. My goal is to snag a couple of those huge Home Depot skeletons to put in my front woods this year. Although it was not done on purpose, my son and I also share a birthday on Halloween, though that honestly has nothing to do with why I love the holiday. Having your birthday on Halloween (or any major holiday, I would imagine) can kind of suck sometimes because everyone already has plans on your birthday. Like, by default. It’s frikkin’ Halloween. They’re going to be out trick-or-treating and they know it a year in advance. Lol
I’m a comedy/humor superfan. From the utter silliness of improv sketches to super well-written stand up hours and almost everything in between (comedic music is not my thing). I love to laugh. I’m that idiot that listens to stand up specials over and over again and I still laugh maniacally even when I’ve reached the point of knowing the punchlines before they hit. I have favorite late night bits that still make me full-on snort and I rewatch them pretty regularly (YouTube is a treasure trove of old comedy clips). For some reason, I’m obsessed with hearing behind-the-scenes stories about comedy being made so comedian-owned podcasts are *chef’s kiss*. I also love books written by comedians/comedy writers and I have a long list of reading recs for anyone who might be interested. Non-comedy books that incorporate well-written humor are bookshelf gold. If the characters are clever and make me laugh, that author will end up being added to my one-click list, without hesitation.
I fell in love with Batman in 1989 (thank you, Tim Burton) and have harbored a not-remotely-mild obsession since. 🦇 Bruce Wayne is so smooth and he’s such an alpha bada$$ when he’s wearing the cowl. He’s not an alien, a mutant, and he doesn’t have magic powers. Just a great big brain full of knowledgy wrinkles, some serious a$$kickery skills, and an account balance large enough to bankroll his late night exploits in Gotham. His widgets were fun and all but I always wanted the man’s garage. I’d be particularly happy with the Tumbler (the Mad Maxian-style rig he drives in Chris Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy) but they’re all iconic. You can actually see me with a molded replica of the ‘66 Batmobile (from comedian Jeff Dunham’s personal collection) here:
I’m in my 40s now and my family still purchases me the occasional Batman toy or piece of decor because my office looks like a shrine to the man. 🦇 I love it and never want them to stop. My dream is to one day hit the lottery (that’s an important step) and build a Batcave-slash-hidden library-slash-office into my house. I want the whole thing. The Shakespeare bust statue with a flip top head that reveals the big red button you need to press to open the Batcave. The massive command center style console instead of a normal people desk. A 50FT. FIREMAN’S POLE THAT LEADS DOWN TO MY ROCKET-POWERED MOTORCYCLE AND MASSIVE GARAGE. Sigh….I don’t know why anyone would need that but I…. Yeah, I think I need that. 👀 So yeah, I love Batman, as long as I’m allowed to pretend that Kilmer and Clooney never happened.
I love to read. I started reading for pleasure really young. I grew up in a household where not a single Stephen King release was missed, and for some reason, we had shelves upon shelves of the Reader’s Digest Condensed Books and old school Harlequin novels. My first book collection was R.L. Stine’s Fear Street novels. I used to buy one or two new Fear Streets every Saturday afternoon. From there, I moved on to devour everything I could by Stephen King. Which led to Anne Rice. Then it was just GAME ON for the rest of my life. I went through a pretty deep thriller phase that lasted for a few years but the majority of my reading has been either fantasy of some kind or dark romance (for the last few years). Urban fantasy and paranormal romance are my LOVES. My all-time favorites list hasn’t changed in a few years: the Fever series by Karen Marie Moning, the Night Huntress world by Jeaniene Frost, the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews, the Calliope Reaper-Jones series by Amber Benson (Yes, Tara from the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer – super funny and great UF!!), the Charley Davidson series by Daryna Jones, Southern Vampire Mysteries (the Sookie Stackhouse books) by Charlaine Harris, the Reliquary series by Sarah Fine (though it’s not finished and likely won’t be, I still re-read this), the Mercy Thompson series and the Alpha & Omega series by Patricia Briggs, (it’s a bit YA but) the Fallen series by Lauren Kate, the Jeremiah Hunt series by Joseph Nassise, Vampire Academy and Bloodlines by Richelle Mead (also a little YA but so good), and the most recent addition is Fourth Wing (HOLY SH!TAKE MUSHROOMS, WHAT A RIDE!). I can literally hold someone hostage talking their ears off about books, and I love finding bookish new friends living their best lives on my obsessive level.
I really love writers. Writers of all kinds. Genre fiction writers, yes, of course, but also feature film screenwriters, late night comedy writers, stand up comedy writers, the teams of writers that come together to pen long-running TV series or massive movie franchises, and truly excellent journalists and bloggers. Words and all the things you can do with them are incredible. Stephen King can turn my stomach with the right tension and build up. The writers of the TV series Supernatural wove a storyline so intricate that nuggets of information dropped in the pilot episode came back up to be relevant fifteen seasons later. A stand up comic with a storyteller style will write five to seven well-written stories that get stretched out into an hour-long special, vs. stand ups with a non sequitur style who write 150+ unrelated one-liner jokes that make up an hour special when delivered in the perfect rapid fire succession. Late night comedy writers have to pen an average of 100 jokes per night and most of those shows run Monday through Thursday. One wrong choice with their economy of words and the story falls apart, the one-liner doesn’t hit the same way, the pilot episode nuggets become meaningless, or Stephen King is just writing about a whiny chick handcuffed to a bed. I started writing because I love writers.
I really, really love to write. I started out writing when I began journaling in my early teens. At the time, I didn’t think of those bits as having any value but some of the content has since been resurrected in my books. In 2011, I began a book blog, and then I published for the first time in October 2012 during the first big self-publishing wave, and since then, my world has expanded into two more series and a pen name in a totally different genre.
Born and raised in New Hampshire, I still reside there despite my extreme hatred for any season which is not summer. I love love LOVE getting to travel, and any chance I get, I travel to Las Vegas, NYC, and the Arizona and Nevada deserts (my favorite places on the planet). I actually get a little case of heart break every time I have to leave to come home. Living in the northeast United States makes no sense what so ever in my grand scheme, but, for now, it’s home.
Happy reading and many dark fantasies!
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